Academicia: An International Multidisciplinary Research Journal

ACADEMICIA 
2. THE LESSON THAT DEVOTED TEACHING PRODUCTIVE SKILLS USING THE 
PROBLEM SOLVING.
Students must be split in two small groups (maximum six students) to discuss different aspects of 
problem solving. Thus, one should find problem solving situation that has two separate parts. 
The teacher should remind students that they do not have all the information they need to solve 
the problem-situation, but based on the existing can make recommendations and come to 
preliminary decisions. ESP teacher can inform students in real life business situation which have 
not a complete set of facts that necessary to solve the problem. 
One and a half hour ESP classes for teaching productive skills with problem solving are divided 
into three half-hour parts: 
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meeting (30 minutes): groups A and groups B meet to discuss their role in the process of 
solving this problem situation; 
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presentation (15 minutes per group): Firstly, group writes opinions, comments and presents 
findings to the other group, and vice versa; 
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Discussion (30 minutes): all students get together to discuss or write the results and make 
recommendations. 
3.
 
Analysis of the Lesson.
 
All classes that conducted using problem solving should be analyzed 
from the point view of the using vocabulary in oral and written presentations of students, 
meeting and presentation skills and language of documents and written communications 
(visualization tools, agenda, meeting minutes). Consider these elements more in detail.
 
Language: There are various ways to deal with mistakes. The teacher can design exercises for 
grammar and vocabulary training taking into account inaccuracies or analyze the main mistakes 
and explain the correct forms of lexical and grammatical designs. 
Management skills: The instructor should talk to students about how to improve these skills. It is 
also necessary to draw students' attention to body language, making eye contact with listeners, 
etc. 
Written communication: After verification written works that were done during ESP lesson and 
at the end of the ESP lesson that hold according to the problem solving situation, the teacher can 
focus on issues such as the difference between oral, written speech and features styles of speech. 
The teacher needs to analyze written documents, name visualization tools, agenda and minutes 
meetings. 
The problem solving has been used for many years for ESP students – business school, law 
schools, medical schools and social studies, but it can also be used in teaching productive skills 
where teachers want students to understand how apply the knowledge gained to real-life 
situations. The problem solving is presented in many formats from a simple question ―What have 
you done in this situation?‖ To a detailed description situations with accompanying data for 
analysis The most problem solving tasks require for students to answer a specific question posed, 
or to develop different solutions to the problem with multiple potential options.

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